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Replenish that fact-starved brain of yours

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Nourish Your Insatiable Hunger for Factoids

January 15, 2025

When we wait a little too long to get lunch, we can get a bit testy. We just get into such a good fact-finding groove that the traditional lunching hour comes and goes. This is how we expect your brain feels right now. It’s fact hangry and maybe a little mad at itself for going too long without facts.

Don’t worry — after it gets these up in it, it’ll apologize for those things it said.

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Mork & Mindy

MORK & MINDY Mork's jumpsuit was originally a Star Trek costume. It's from The Savage Curtain, the third-to-last episode in the series. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Iron Giant

In early illustrations for The Iron Giant novel, the giant looked terrifying. For some reason, he was depicted as a steampunk mecha stalking the woods. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Super-Weird Early Versions Of Famous Characters

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Marriage

disp 77.9% OF SOFTWARE disp DEVELOPERS ARE disp MARRIED. val disp from DOS DOS Even though their median age is just 36 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Mr. Popper’s Penguins

40 Random Bits of Trivia to Nourish Your Insatiable Hunger for Factoids — Source

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Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme (accidentally) supports the Klan COLOURING LUESDAY 18th February, 12:00pm - 5.00pm KKK WEDNESDAY CRACKED.COM In 2015, a Krispy Kreme location in the UK planned a week of fun family events, including a Wednesday dedicated to the unfortunately named Krispy Kreme Klub. — Source

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Mission: Impossible III

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE CRACKED The stairs at Caserta Palace have appeared in a bunch of blockbusters-besides MI3, they've been in Angels & Demons, The Phantom Menace and more. Now it's falling apart thanks to all the tourists who come see it — Source: 15 Unexpected Facts About Movie & TV Show Locations

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Seinfeld

Lori Loughlin SEINFELD Two years after Full House ended, she was on the Serenity now! episode of Seinfeld, playing Jerry's girlfriend. She later bec

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The Blair Witch Project

The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The CIA

CRACKED.COM Baffling things done by the CIA Debunking Black Panther When Black Panther won three Oscars, he CIA's Twitter account just had to debunk it as complete fantasy - which yeah, CIA, we know. Gee, it's almost like they're trying to discredit the idea of an African nation thriving by hiding from meddling foreign governments. — Source

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Dogs

THIS ROCK ART IS BELIEVED TO BE THE EARLIEST DEPICTION OF DOGS. Believed to be more than 8,000 years old, this rock features dogs on their way to becoming domesticated. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Dog Facts That Are Pleasant As Hell

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Gum

THE OLDEST PIECE OF GUM IS OVER 9000 YEARS OLD. The gum was made out of resin and sweetened with honey. Archeologists believe it was chewed by a teena

29

Haing S. Ngor

GRACKED HAING S. NGOR WON AN OSCAR FOR RELIVING HIS REAL-LIFE HORRORS. THE KILLING FIELDS The Cambodian physician was discovered by a talent scout at a wedding, and was asked to play Dith Pran in a film about the genocide he had just himself survived 6 years earlier. Не is one of only 2 non-actors to win an Oscar. — Mentalfloss / The Better Cambodia

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Lab-Grown Bones

CRACKED BONES Columbia researchers grew two small bones using digital images, 3D scaffolding, and a bioreactor chamber to feed oxygen, hormones, and nutrients. They solved the problem of creating lab-grown bones in the exact shape of the originals. — Popsci / Lit Hub

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Martin Bashir

MARTIN BASHIR In 2013, British journalist Martin Bashir (famous for his explosive interviews with Princess Diana and Michael Jackson) lost his hosting

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Michael Jackson

Bad was originally going to be a collaboration between Michael Jackson and Prince. Producer Quincy Jones says it was his idea to put the two rivals to

25

Joel Schumacher

Joel Schumacher wanted to cast Drew Barrymore and Rosanna Arquette in a sequel to The Lost Boys. It'd be called The Lost Girls, and he wanted to do it because girl vampires on motorcycles would be sexy and funny and something that I'd like to see. But the movie just never made it out of development hell. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

24

Guns and MRIs

CRACKED A LAWYER IN BRAZIL DIED AFTER HIS GUN DISCHARGED IN AN MRI ROOM. Не walked into a room with an MRI, and the magnetic force of the machine pulled the gun from his waistband and the bullet hit him in the stomach. — Kiro 7

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Pepsi

Pepsi commercializes Black Lives Matter PEPSI In the 2017 commercial, millionaire Kendall Jenner walks through a crowd of protestors to give a can of soda to a cop, and everyone cheers as systemic inequality is solved!

22

Terminator

CRACKED ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ONLY MADE $75,000 FOR HIS ROLE IN TERMINATOR. 7 years later, in Terminator 2, he made $15,000,000. — Source

21

The USSR

13 Scintillating Now-You-Know Movie Facts and General Trivia - The USSR had an all-female airplane squadron in WWIl - the Night Witches. — Source: Sky History

20

Star Wars

Theed Royal Palace in The Phantom Menace was where Nazi Germany surrendered. That's Caserta Palace in Italy, and it's the place where the Allied High Command for the Mediterranean was established in 1943. In 1945, a delegation from Germany signed their country's surrender there. — Source: 7 Terrifying Places (Where Movies Were Filmed)

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Florida

Florida's state gemstone does not naturally occur in Florida. NASA STORE CRACKED COM The finest moonstones are found mainly in Sri Lanka and Southern India. The gem was chosen to commemorate as- tronaut-controlled space flights launched from the Kennedy Space Center. — My Florida

18

Ewoks

In the '80s, Ewoks had their own kid-friendly cartoon (called, well, Ewoks). In it, Ewoks spoke English (presumably to make them slightly more endearing to kids). The show didn't last longer than a year, though. CRACKED.COM — Source: Digital Spy

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The Criminal

CRACKED.COM Irene Adler Sherlock Holmes Irene The Criminal Despite being originally engaged in what amounts to (at most) petty blackmail, Irene is commonly depicted as a world-class criminal - engaging in espionage, terrorism, and blackmail on a grand scale (when not working for Sherlock's main villain).

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Porn Snowmen

16th-century Belgians built porn snowmen. The Miracle of 1511 was a huge winter festival held in Brussels, when lots of elaborate snow figures were made - more than half of them of a sexual or scatological nature. People were mad (at the government and the harsh winter), and the snow things gave them an outlet to vent. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Random Facts to Make Your Life More Factual and/or Random

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Samsung

BUY NOW Beyoncé Beyoncé phone Tue Jan09 10:10AM In 2007, Samsung came out with a special B-Phone, designed by Beyoncé. It had a gold and SAMSUNG burgundy color scheme, a Beyoncé- themed startup screen, and you could get exclusive Beyoncé content. CRACKED — Samsung
Billboard

14

Camels

Camels' Humps Store Water CRACKED.COM Unfortunately, no, camels aren't built like some sort of weird living Super Soaker. Their humps are filled with regular old fat. It's their unique blood cells that let them store more water than other animals. Also, Joe Camel isn't real, and they HATE cigarettes. — Business Insider

13

Jamie Oliver

The first book Jamie Oliver read was Catching Fire, at 38. He's dyslexic, So he never managed to get through a book before that. He almost finished An — Source: Evening Standard

12

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock Не worked on a documentary about Nazi concentration camps. The film, titled Memory of the Camps, was made in 1945, but shelved because it would hurt German morale (those poor Germans). It was finally released during the '80s. CRACKED.COM — Source: History

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Superbad

BEHINO-THE-SCENES FACTS SUPERBAD McLovin had to do his sex scene in front of HIS MOM CRACKED.COM Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward. Afterwards we didn't talk about it; we still don't, says Mintz-Plasse. Now, I'm 19 SO my mom doesn't have to be in the room when I have sex, thank God. — Cheatsheet

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Anna Kendrick

Anna Kendrick is a big fan of Reddit and spends a ton of time on it. In one interview, she said I could get my phone, I'm sure it's open on my phone right now. I'm sure it is. She doesn't even really browse subreddits, just reddit/all. CRACKED.COM — Source: Collider

9

The Sedlec Ossuary

THIS CHAPEL HAS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BONES. The Sedlec Ossuary was the work of Czech woodcarver Frantisek Rint, hired to organize the church's s — For details, read The 6 Creepiest Places on Earth

8

The Avengers

The Avengers comic book series was a last-minute idea after a delayed issue of Daredevil. CRACKED.COM With no time to devise new characters who had complicated origin stories, it was decided to instead use Marvel's roster of existing characters in a team-up comic. — The Motley Fool

7

Norway

In Norway, 99% of electricity production is from hydroelectric plants. CRACKED COM They plan to increase an- nual production by 15 ter- awatt-hours (12%) by 2020 and could double installed capacity if they build new cross-border links to ship the surplus electricity abroad. — Source

6

The Fast and the Furious

The first seven Fast and Furious movies wrecked over a thousand cars -- the number is 1,487. If you included the cars from the 8th and 9th movie, plus the ones from Hobbs & Shaw, the total number might cross the 2,000 figure. CRACKED.COM — Source

5

Jim Jones

SHADY TIES HARVEY MILK AND JIM JONES When Jones (who conducted the mass-suicide of 918 people) was getting bad publicity, Milk wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter, praising the cult leader and the work he was doing. They left that out of the Milk biopic. CRACKED — Source

4

Cheetos

A janitor pitched the idea of Flamin' Hot Cheetos to Frit-Lay. CRACKED.COM Richard Montañez had the idea to add chili powder to the cheesy treat, and has since risen up the ranks to serve as a PepsiCo executive. The movie Flamin' Hot about these events is cur- rently in post production. — Source

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Baron Samedi

BARON SAMEDI CRACKED COM The Deity of the dead in Haitian Voodoo, he is noted for obscenity, debauchery, and a love of tobacco and rum. Better stay on his good side, because if you're ill, he can either heal you, welcome you into the realm of the dead, or resurrect you as a zombie. — Source

2

Pigeons

The Chinese Army has 10,000 trained pigeons in the event that war renders its modern technology unusable. CRACKED.COM The pigeons, flying at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, are being trained to car- ry loads of up to 3.5 oz. — Source

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Hot Mic

A California politician resigned after bragging about two affairs into a mic. CRACKED CON California Assemblyman Michael D. Duvall was caught on a hot mic detailing the affairs he was having, one with an energy company lobbyist. The less graphic details he shared included the couple's spanking routine, and enough information on the woman that people were able to figure out her identity. Duvall, who previously received a 100% rating from a pro-family organization, resigned hours after the televised broadcast of the tape. — Source: 15 Random Facts That Will Fill Your Life With Purpose

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